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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786756903321

Titolo

Imagining the Mexican Revolution : versions and visions in literature and visual culture / / edited by Tilmann Altenberg ; with a foreword by Leonard Folgarait

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6570-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

860.9972

Soggetti

Mexican literature - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Mexico - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD - IMAGES AND IMAGININGS OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: LITERATURE; CHAPTER ONE - GEOGRAFÍA Y PROCESOS CULTURALES EN LA NARRATIVA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA; CHAPTER TWO - TOWARDS A BROADER DEFINITION OF THE NOVEL OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION; CHAPTER THREE - LOS DE ABAJO; CHAPTER FOUR - WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT?; CHAPTER FIVE - THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO ITALIAN NOVELIST VALERIO EVANGELISTI; PART II: VISUAL CULTURE

CHAPTER SIX - FRANCISCO LEÓN DE LA BARRA, LA PRENSA Y EL LINCHAMIENTO DEL CAUDILLO FRANCISCO I. MADEROCHAPTER SEVEN - THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION IN THE VISUAL DISCOURSE OF THE 1968 STUDENT MOVEMENT; CHAPTER EIGHT - EXECUTIONS BY FIRING SQUAD; CHAPTER NINE - ZAPATA ON FILM; CHAPTER TEN - PANCHO VILLA EN PANTALLA; CHAPTER ELEVEN - LA LEY DE HERODES; CHAPTER TWELVE - ARS COMBINATORIA RELOADED; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ARTE Y PODER EN LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO; PICTURE CREDITS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""Mexico's 1910 Revolution engendered a vast range of responses: from novels and autobiographies to political cartoons, feature films and



placards. In the light of the centennial commemorations, contributors to this original collection evaluate the cultural legacy of this landmark event in a series of engaging essays. Imagining the Mexican Revolution is a rich resource for those interested in ways in which literary and visual culture mediate our understandings of this complex historical phenome...